Chapter 130 (1/2)

After Fang Ye released the food plate, he saw the barrage and touched his chin: ”someone asked if this is a begging behavior. Begging behavior means that when the animal is inactive in the outdoor exhibition area, it comes to the edge of the exhibition area and waits for tourists to feed it. In this way, tourists can't see its natural behavior, and feeding is also harmful to health, so they should refuse to feed it.

Seeing the breeder come with food and ask for food, this is not actually a begging behavior. It's equivalent to your mother telling you to go over and eat when she has cooked a meal.

Raccoons usually eat with their two claws holding food. It really looks like begging.

This kind of behavior is easier to stimulate tourists' feeding heart than other animals. Just watch them get fat like this ball.

Therefore, our raccoon exhibition area uses a glass curtain wall barrier to block the possibility of feeding from the physical level as far as possible. ”

When the doubt was solved, another netizen asked, ”the head of the garden, why doesn't the raccoon eat and rub it all the time?”

”Because they love to be clean! The reason why they are called raccoons is that raccoons are used to washing their food in water before eating. Now they have to dry clean if they don't have water. ”

”Is that so?”

Fang ye said with a smile, ”you're half right. The reason for the name raccoon is really like what this netizen said, because they really like to do the action of 'raccoon washing'. In English, raccoon is called raccoon, which comes from Indian language and means' scratching with your hand '.

But the raccoon didn't wash it for cleaning.

Their most important sensory ability is touch, especially the forepaw. There are a large number of tactile receivers and nerve fibers. They have high sensitivity and can sense and measure the size, weight, material and temperature of food.

The outermost part of the claw is protected by a thin cuticle. When immersed in water, the cuticle becomes soft and the perception ability will be enhanced. They use this process to choose food and remove the parts they don't need.

So you may see that raccoons don't necessarily wash food. They wash everything in the water with a branch or stone. In fact, they use this action to sense the properties of objects. And raccoons can't distinguish clean water from dirty water. They often wash their food in muddy water, and then the more they wash, the more dirty they get. ”

Fang ye then went to get a basin, took the basin of water and put it on the floor. Sure enough, after the raccoons found it, they held a handful of food with both hands, formed a circle around the edge of the basin, put it into the water and washed it!

After carefully scrubbing several times, it was put into the mouth and eaten.

Then he went back to the edge of the food plate, picked up a handful of food, ran back to the edge of the basin and repeated the cleaning action.

Netizens looked interesting: ”ha ha, this is obsessive-compulsive disorder. It's uncomfortable not to wash!”

”The more you wash, the dirtier it gets, but it's OK. It's the same silly goods as the panda.”

Fang Ye shook his head and said, ”that's wrong. Raccoons just have bad eyes and high IQ. Urbanization brings crisis to most animals. Only a few animals benefit from it. Raccoons are one of them!

They can write down the surrounding maps in their heads, take the initiative to avoid busy intersections and choose safer routes. They also have 3D navigation ability. In addition to ground routes, they can also use complex sewer lines to shuttle freely in the city.

Some scientists have tested that in the face of locks, door bolts, buttons and other mechanisms, raccoons can quickly master the opening method. Even in the face of combined mechanisms, raccoons can open without effort. After three years, they will remember the opening method of each different mechanism. ”